--- title: The queen threw herself on her knees, took off her beautiful crown,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The queen threw herself on her knees, took off her beautiful crown, and, holding it in her hand, cried, "Take this from me, but do rub my husband and his courtiers." Who acts: queen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:197:3 # text = The queen threw herself on her knees, took off her beautiful crown, and, holding it in her hand, cried, "Take this from me, but do rub my husband and his courtiers." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 off off ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 23 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 27 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 obj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 rub rub VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 courtiers courtier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** | past | the queen | queen | | queen's knees | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take off** | past | the queen *not said here* | queen's beautiful crown | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | gerund | | crown | | queen's hand | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | this | | | | from the queen *= queen* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent this=Theme from i=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **rub** *in a quote* | present · do-support | | | my husband and showman's courtiers | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent husband=Destination | | 7 | **crown** | | queen | | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/197/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/197/4/) - ↑ back to [The Travelling Companion, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/197/)